More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."
"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."